RE: AGP S3 Trio 3D 8MB video card
Use 4MB. Theres a bug in the server. Use the SVGA server. So either use 4MB or set the option for SW_CURSOR james -Original Message- From: Horacio MG [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2000 1:51 PM To: Debian List Subject: AGP S3 Trio 3D 8MB video card Hi, just installed this video card (AGP S3 Trio 3D 8MB) and tried to configure it for the X environment, but I can't find the proper sever for it. This is the output from SuperProbe: First video: Super-VGA Chipset: S3 (chipset unknown) (Port Probed) Signature data: e18a1302 (please report) Memory: 4096 Kbytes RAMDAC: Generic 8-bit pseudo-color DAC (with 6-bit wide lookup tables (or in 6-bit mode)) which is strange as it doesn't seem to recognize the card and just sees 4MB instead of 8MB. Which XServer should I use for it? If this Xfree version doesn't have support for this cards, which xserver could I safely use until I upgrade? The sistem is: Debian 2.1 Linux 2.2.10 glibc2.1 xfree86 3.3.2.3a-11 Please, Cc: me as I'm only on the digest list (and would like to get the answer as soon as possible). TIA. -- Horacio Anno MMDCCLIII aUC [EMAIL PROTECTED] Valencia - ESPAÑA Key fingerprint = F4EE AE5E 2F01 0DB3 62F2 A9F4 AD31 7093 4233 7AE6 -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: AGP S3 Trio 3D 8MB video card
Use 4MB. Theres a bug in the server. Use the SVGA server. So either use 4MB or set the option for SW_CURSOR just installed this video card (AGP S3 Trio 3D 8MB) and tried to configure it for the X environment, but I can't find the proper sever for it. Use 4MB. Theres a bug in the server. Use the SVGA server. So either use 4MB or set the option for SW_CURSOR Is it a bug I can expect to be fixed anytime soon? I might as well have kept my pci S3 Virge 2MB and save the money! Thank You, -- Horacio [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anno MMDCCLIII aUC Valencia - España Key fingerprint = F4EE AE5E 2F01 0DB3 62F2 A9F4 AD31 7093 4233 7AE6
Re: AGP S3 Trio 3D 8MB video card
Horacio MG [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: HMG just installed this video card (AGP S3 Trio 3D 8MB) and tried to HMG configure it for the X environment, but I can't find the proper sever HMG for it. HMG Which XServer should I use for it? If this Xfree version doesn't have HMG support for this cards, which xserver could I safely use until I HMG upgrade? HMG xfree86 3.3.2.3a-11 XFree86 didn't even start to support the S3 Trio3D until version 3.3.4, IIRC, and the stable X releases have only spotty support at best. (I've heard reports of the server refusing to work except at very specific modelines, but my [PCI] Trio3D refused to work even then.) You can get either X source or binaries of the X server from xfree86.org, or upgrade to the current Debian release-in-testing (frozen/potato, which has XF86 3.3.6); use the XF86_SVGA server. If you're feeling more adventurous, the latest beta of XFree86 (3.9.18) also supports the Trio3D, and it seems to work better than just about anything else I've tried (performance beats XF86_FBDev, and stability/workingness over other things). You can get a snapshot (source only), again from xfree86.org, but you'll need to build this yourself (took me about a day on a P100). -- David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mit.edu/~dmaze/ Theoretical politics is interesting. Politicking should be illegal. -- Abra Mitchell
Re: AGP S3 Trio 3D 8MB video card
Wild guess: upgrade X to 3.3.6? Andrew Use 4MB. Theres a bug in the server. Use the SVGA server. So either use 4MB or set the option for SW_CURSOR just installed this video card (AGP S3 Trio 3D 8MB) and tried to configure it for the X environment, but I can't find the proper sever for it. Use 4MB. Theres a bug in the server. Use the SVGA server. So either use 4MB or set the option for SW_CURSOR Is it a bug I can expect to be fixed anytime soon? I might as well have kept my pci S3 Virge 2MB and save the money! Thank You, -- Horacio [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anno MMDCCLIII aUC Valencia - Espa?a Key fingerprint = F4EE AE5E 2F01 0DB3 62F2 A9F4 AD31 7093 4233 7AE6 -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null - Andrei S. Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://scorpio.dynodns.net -| http://scorpio.myip.org-| --All the pages bundled together. http://arshes.dyndns.org -| If one does not work, try another :) UIN 12402354 To get my GnuPG public key, go to scorpio.dynodns.net/GnuPG scorpio.myip.org/GnuPG arshes.dyndns.org/GnuPG -
Re: AGP S3 Trio 3D 8MB video card
El mié, 08 de mar de 2000, a las 05:14:22 -0600, James Sasitorn dijo: Use 4MB. Theres a bug in the server. Use the SVGA server. So either use 4MB or set the option for SW_CURSOR what's that SW_CURSOR option and where can it be set? El mié, 08 de mar de 2000, a las 07:48:17 -0500, David Z. Maze dijo: XFree86 didn't even start to support the S3 Trio3D until version 3.3.4, IIRC, and the stable X releases have only spotty support at best. (I've heard reports of the server refusing to work except at very specific modelines, but my [PCI] Trio3D refused to work even then.) You can get either X source or binaries of the X server from xfree86.org, or upgrade to the current Debian release-in-testing (frozen/potato, which has XF86 3.3.6); use the XF86_SVGA server. I'm afraid you're right but... El mié, 08 de mar de 2000, a las 06:17:18 -0800, Jonathan Nieder dijo: Well, I'm prob'ly wrong (hence not sending to the mailing list), but I'd say that you'd use the generic svga server. somehow right but... I ran xf86config and chose the SVGA server. Since the card is not listed, I chose a generic S3 TrioV2 (don't ask me why). The boot would give me a HUGE (and I mean huge) screen for X, so I went through XF86Setup: for every mode with a colour depth of 32bpp, 24bpp, and 16bpp I always get: Attempting to start server... (twice) -X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111 ... for every mode with a colour depth of 8bpp I always get that HUGE screen, which is actually just a part of the screen. I've tried with modes as high as 1600x1200 and as low as 480x300 (and some others in between), but the result is always the same. Now, upgrading to potato's 3.3.6 might be a choice, if the upgrade was straight forward, but we all know this is not so and many things may get broken. I went through my small private hell when I upgraded to glibc2.1 and several other potato's libs and progs. I'm just afraid that this time might be similar somehow (not being adventorous, I know). Any thoughts? -- Horacio Anno MMDCCLIII aUC [EMAIL PROTECTED] Valencia - ESPAÑA Key fingerprint = F4EE AE5E 2F01 0DB3 62F2 A9F4 AD31 7093 4233 7AE6
AGP S3 Trio 3D 8MB video card
Hi, just installed this video card (AGP S3 Trio 3D 8MB) and tried to configure it for the X environment, but I can't find the proper sever for it. This is the output from SuperProbe: First video: Super-VGA Chipset: S3 (chipset unknown) (Port Probed) Signature data: e18a1302 (please report) Memory: 4096 Kbytes RAMDAC: Generic 8-bit pseudo-color DAC (with 6-bit wide lookup tables (or in 6-bit mode)) which is strange as it doesn't seem to recognize the card and just sees 4MB instead of 8MB. Which XServer should I use for it? If this Xfree version doesn't have support for this cards, which xserver could I safely use until I upgrade? The sistem is: Debian 2.1 Linux 2.2.10 glibc2.1 xfree86 3.3.2.3a-11 Please, Cc: me as I'm only on the digest list (and would like to get the answer as soon as possible). TIA. -- Horacio Anno MMDCCLIII aUC [EMAIL PROTECTED] Valencia - ESPAÑA Key fingerprint = F4EE AE5E 2F01 0DB3 62F2 A9F4 AD31 7093 4233 7AE6
